Voices in An Empty Room
“All three of them looked and behaved as people would hope themselves to look and behave in such circumstances but, in many cases, would never succeed in doing. They were clearly grief-stricken but they showed none of the wildness, disorder and self-absorption of grief. Bridget was wearing a simple, brown dress, a shade darker than her hair. A puffiness about the eyes suggested that she had been weeping. The boys flanked her, each in grey flannels, tie and pullover, with grave, stoical faces. Fr...iends later told her that she should have refused to be interviewed, it was an unforgivable intrusion; but she replied, ‘ No, I felt it to be my duty.’ Then, at least, the friends countered, she should have refused to involve the boys. But the boys, at that brief time of solidarity, had wanted to be involved.
‘This news must have come as a terrible shock to you, Mrs Nagel?’ For a hysterical moment, equally invisible to the interviewer and the camera, Bridget had had the impulse to answer, ‘No, it came as a lovely surprise,’ so idiotic was the question.MoreLess
‘This news must have come as a terrible shock to you, Mrs Nagel?’ For a hysterical moment, equally invisible to the interviewer and the camera, Bridget had had the impulse to answer, ‘No, it came as a lovely surprise,’ so idiotic was the question.MoreLess
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